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SatyrSack
SatyrSack via Open Source • lemmy (AP)

Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months

I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

[issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree · Issue #2795 · ventoy/Ventoy

What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f8946...
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer
BrianTheeBiscuiteer • lemmy (AP)
Any alternatives to this tool? I've used it a lot lately because I was testing out live OSes before installing one to the hard drive, but otherwise I don't need it on a daily basis.
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Snot Flickerman
Snot Flickerman • lemmy (AP)
but otherwise I don’t need it on a daily basis.


I'll be real, this is part of why I didn't understand Ventoy. I keep a bunch of large, fast thumbdrives around blank and available. When I need/want to put an OS on there, I do it when I need it, and then I'm always installing the most current version of the install. It takes under 5 minutes, at best.

I used to try to keep various installs on thumbdrives... but it would be two years down the line by the time I needed to use it again and by that time it's literally pointless to be using two year old installation media.

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TheGalacticVoid
TheGalacticVoid • lemmy (AP)
As someone with few USBs available, Ventoy takes me 2 minutes to flash, several minutes to copy a set of ISOs, and then any time I need it, it takes 0 minutes to have a working USB with some arbitrary ISO. Sure, it's not up to date, but I don't need it to be if I need to recover an install or use some random tool.
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